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industry will probably have had the matrix affect them in different ways. there was a huge expectation on the movie s shoulders, but also on vfx, obviously we re revisiting a world that had been created 20 years ago, so we knew these assets were alive somewhere, we just had to try and track them down and find them. and it wasn t, sadly, the case that they all just live in a nice hard drive and we can just ask warner brothers, hey, can we have the assets? , and they send them to us. lots of e mail threads, different people, old companies looking through their backups and finding whatever they can. we eventually managed to restore, i think, a sentinel, a harvester and a foetus egg stalk. we found all the files but then we were like, how do we open it? none of the modern 3d packages will open these files. we found an old version of the file that we could open it, export it in a different way and be able to pull it in. they needed upgrading. they were built a long time ago, topology is di
you could feel people have lived there for a while and they have figured out how to irrigation channels, farming, dwellings, we tried to block out these different areas that you could buy as real, and then populate it with little people, little chimney stacks, atmospherics, it was set in a huge cabin so we want to make sure we have a sense of scale. our vfx work will always be better if we are building off the back of something real, or if we have something real to reference before we build out the effects. it will always look better, you can create whatever you like, you can create wonderful environments, as much imagination as you like, but as soon as you start putting something real into it you just need something to ground it. and i think if you do a partial set build of exactly the kind of idea that you want, you want to light your characters in a certain way, the background behaves a certain way behind them, so once you have got something captured on camera it is so much easier
now on bbc news, it s time for click. this week, phones, phones and more phones. mobile world congress is back. we re going up a mountain with this good girl. and the vfx behind the matrix resurrections. they are breathtaking! mobile world congress. every year, barcelona used to be lit up with smartphone launches and announcements of connected devices, beyond what you might ever think of or need. now, 2020 was pretty much